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Fourteen scholars investigate the intersection of Gnosis/Gnostic spirituality and American religion and culture.

Etruscan Orientalization outlines the modern influences of orientalism, nationalism, and colonialism in the terms 'orientalizing' and 'orientalization' to reconsider their use in describing Mediterranean connectivity in the eighth and seventh centuries BCE.

Steven J. Taylor: Blue Man Living in a Red World is the third volume in the series, Critical Leaders and the Foundation of Disability Studies in Education. The contributors consider applications informed by Taylor's insights, research and scholarship.

Curriculum and Learning for Climate Action offers researchers, practitioners, donors, and decisionmakers insights into entry points for education systems change needed to reorient human society's relationship with our planetary systems.

Curriculum and Learning for Climate Action offers researchers, practitioners, donors, and decisionmakers insights into entry points for education systems change needed to reorient human society's relationship with our planetary systems.

A Guide to Administering Online Learning provides an overview of tasks to be accomplished in order to direct dynamic online initiatives. Experienced distance learning teachers and administrators share their insights regarding what must be done to administer effective online learning.

A Guide to Administering Online Learning provides an overview of tasks to be accomplished in order to direct dynamic online initiatives. Experienced distance learning teachers and administrators share their insights regarding what must be done to administer effective online learning.

Taking a multi-faceted approach to the Srōs Drōn, this work offers a critical edition of the Avestan text, a translation, a glossary, an in-depth methodological exposition, and a study of the performative dimension of the Srōs Drōn, in particular on the basis of the ritual directions

This work examines the dualistic thinking that characterizes the legal regimes governing creativity and cultural production. It reflects on the problem of regulating creativity and cultural production according to Western thought systems in a world that is not only Western.

In Rider Haggard and the Imperial Occult, Simon Magus explores the occult world of H. Rider Haggard through an analysis of his literary engagement with ancient Egypt, Romanticism and Theosophy.

Spanning the history of Islamic Central Asia from medieval to modern times, this volume features groundbreaking studies of the region's religious life and culture by leading scholars in the field.

This collection of articles presents cutting-edge scholarship in Hippocratic studies in English from an international range of experts. It pays special attention to the commentary tradition, notably in Syriac and Arabic, and its relevance to the constitution and interpretation of works in the Hippocratic Corpus.

An interdisciplinary exploration of the theme of variance in concepts of time in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences.

The author employs cognitive semantic and frame semantic to demonstrate the basic semantic structure of the Biblical Hebrew verb שׁלם.

This volume focuses on current demands, challenges and expectations facing African higher education institutions in general, and those in South Africa in particular. Subsequently, transformative curricula, pedagogies and epistemologies that define diverse practices of access and inclusion within the context of transformation and decolonisation are explored.

This volume focuses on current demands, challenges and expectations facing African higher education institutions in general, and those in South Africa in particular. Subsequently, transformative curricula, pedagogies and epistemologies that define diverse practices of access and inclusion within the context of transformation and decolonisation are explored.

This rich collection focuses on the broad research interests of Professor Nico Schrijver, in whose honour it was created. Written by a wide range of international scholars affiliated with Leiden University's Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, the essays reflect Professor Schrijver's important contribution to academia and practice, particularly in the fields of sovereignty, human rights and sustainable development. The authors aim to reflect on changes in international law and on new developments in the diverse fields they explore. "Furthering frontiers" is the research theme of the Grotius Centre. Its exploration in this thought-provoking volume is a fitting homage to Nico Schrijver's achievements on the occasion of his retirement as Chair of Public International Law of Leiden University.

In Alcohol in Early Java: Its Social and Cultural Significance, Jiří Jákl offers an account of the history of alcohol in pre-Islamic Java (9-15th C.E.).

This book provides memoirs and analyses designed to help students increase their critical understanding of class from theoretical, systemic, and personal perspectives. Emphasis is placed upon the power of rhetoric to fight for equitable distribution of income and class power.

This book offers an account of how 'ancestors' instructions' were used and abused in the Song period. It digs deeply into abundant resources to tease apart the complex and versatile relationship between the meaning and the truth of the Song discourse of ancestors' instructions.

Impacts by asteroids or comets on Earth may lead to natural disasters of catastrophic dimensions. This book addresses legal and policy aspects of 'planetary defence' activities by space agencies and other actors aiming at the prediction and mitigation of Near-Earth Objects (NEOs).

This book traces the establishment of a master narrative of the Middle Ages in Bulgaria and its evolution to the present day, including the attempt at a Marxist counter-narrative, thereby offering a critical analysis of Bulgarian historiographical views.

Habent sua fata libelli honors the work of Craig Kallendorf, offering studies in his primary fields of expertise: the history of the book and reading, the classical tradition and reception studies, Renaissance humanism, and Virgilian scholarship.

This interdisciplinary collaboration is the first in-depth study of Chinese Buddhist dice divination. It situates the tenth-century "Divination of Maheśvara," within a deep Chinese backstory while simultaneously tracking its specific method of divination across the Silk Road to ancient India.